What's A Tweet Anymore? — Not 140 characters. — Twitter would like you to see Twitter in a very particular way, no matter where you see it: on your phone, on your tablet, on your desktop — even on someone else's website. Which is why it lets you embed tweets anywhere …

A word on cryptography — The cloud storage market is dominated by players that do not take advantage of cryptography beyond HTTPS and server-side encryption. Since we set out to improve this rather dissatisfying situation three days ago, some news outlets have made attempts to dismantle our crypto architecture.

Announcing Release of Windows Azure Media Services — I'm excited to announce the general availability (GA) release of Windows Azure Media Services. This release is now live in production, supported by a new media services dev center, backed by an enterprise SLA, and is ready to be used for all media projects.

New film goes in search of Google's first privacy policy — ‘Terms And Conditions May Apply,’ which premieres at Sundance today, laments the decline of users' legal rights. — Anyone interested in how Google's privacy policies over the years can easily compare previous versions, thanks to an archive the company has set up online.

A New Group Aims to Make Programming Cool — The presence of technology in the lives of most teenagers hasn't done much to entice more of them to become programmers. So Hadi Partovi has formed a nonprofit foundation aimed at making computer science as interesting to young people as smartphones, Instagram and iPads.

Google adds ARM support to Chrome's Native Client — Google's Native Client endowed x86 machines with the ability to run apps compiled from C and C++ right inside Chrome in 2011, and now ARM devices are finally getting their time to shine. Mountain View's latest Native Client SDK adds support …